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REPORT OF THREE CASES OF CARDIAC ACTINOMYCOSIS, WITH A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE

ALBERT CORNELL, M.D.; HOWARD B. SHOOKHOFF, M.D.

Arch Intern Med. 1944;74(1):11-27.

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Actinomycosis is the most common visceral mycotic infection in man. As early as 1899, ten years after the first description of the disease in man by Israel, Ruhräh¹ presented statistics on 1,094 cases. In 1925 Sanford and Voelker² were able to collect reports of 670 cases in the United States alone. In about 15 per cent of these cases the infection occurred in the thorax. This figure has been corroborated by other observers, but, as pointed out by Kaufmann,³ involvement of the heart and pericardium is distinctly rare. Kasper and Pinner⁴ found it to occur in less than 2 per cent of 470 cases of actinomycosis. In his recent excellent monograph on actinomycosis Cope⁵ made only one general statement concerning cardiac actinomycosis, namely, "extension by continuity may take the fungus into the pericardium or the very substance of the heart." The following case is an . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
NEW YORK

From the Laboratory Division and the Medical Division of the Montefiore Hospital for Chronic Diseases.

Footnotes
Aided by a grant from the Sigmund M. Lehman Fellowship Fund.

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